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J. w. MALOY; CUTTER HEAD FOR STONE CUTTING MACHINES.

(No Model?) No. 334,594. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

UNITED STATES,

-' JAMES W. MALOY, on SOMERVILLE, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE PAT NT ASSIGNMENTS,

TO THE AMERICAN MARBLE CUTTING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASS.

CUTTER-HEAD. FOR STONE-CUTTING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,594, dated -1 'anuary 19, 1886. Application filed December 15, 1884. Renewed November 27, 1885. Serial No. 184,196. No model.)

cu1ting-disks upon studs extending from ahub at such an angle that the forward edges of the revolving cutters will alone .be brought in contact with the surface to be cut, and so that the lower edges may be brought in close proximity, so as to secur a comparatively small bore or out without unduly reducing the size of the cutter-disks,

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved cutter-head. Fig. 2-

is an inverted plan view. Fig. 3is adiagram illustrating the angular arrangement of the disks, bearings, or studs.

A is the hub of the cutter, consisting of a block of metal adapted for attachment to the shaft of a stone-cutting machine, or other ma.-

chine of like character, and beveled at the lower end so as to form threeincliuedjeqnidistant faces, an 00. extends astud, b, upon which. is-mounted so as to rotate freely a cutterdisk, B, having beveled sides, forming a sha1'p-cutting,edgel,y. The studs bprojeet from the faces as .at right angles tothe plane 3 3 of the said faces; but

-- instead of being set to extend radially from the faces upon a horizontal plane upon the lines 4, as shown in the diagram, Fig. 3, they are set at an angle to the said radial lines, as

. shown in said figure, so as to throw out the forward edges, 12, of .the cutter-disks. The result of this angular arrangement of the studs and forward projectionof the cuttingedgesis to carry the rear edges, 10, of the cutters away from the edge z, formed in the slab of stone or other material by the'operprovided with two, three, or inorefaces, the

Central] y from each face a;-

ation of the forward edges, 1;, of the said disk, th us leaving a clearance which prevents the cutter-disks from binding against the cut surface at the rear edges,'so that the forward cutting-edges of the disks are the only part thereof brought into contact with the material cut. 1

By arranging the studs 1) at right angles to the faces nas described, the lower edgesof the cutters are projected; inward and brought comparatively close together, even when large cutting-disks are empleyed, by Which means a comparatively small bore or dish is madeiu the material without the friction and rapid wear which would result from the employment of small disks, so that by the rotation of the cutter-head and the movement of the slab of stone or'otiier materitlto be cut the said slab may be channeled, grooved, or dished, so

' as to form almost any desired shape of depression in the slab.

It ,will of course be understood that each cutter may consist of two or more sharpedged disks, and that any suitable form of studs or bearings for the cutter-disk may be employed.

It will be apparent that thehub may be cutter-disks being arranged at the same angle as above described, whatever the number of faces and-disks may be.

I do not here make any claim to a head provided with cutter-disks arranged on studs at a right angle orilie's'sthaijga right angle to the Vertical axis of the heagilas this forms the subject of .a. separate application for Letters Patent, filed December 15, 1884, No. 150,418.

Without limiting myself to the precise con- ..'struction and arrangement of parts shown and described, I claim?- v 1. The combgiiation, in cutter-head, of a hub, circular cut tingdisks, and studs supporting the said'disks, extending laterally from the hub and arranged with the axis of the cutter parallel to but distant from a radial line extending from the axis of the cutterhead, to throw. the forward cutting-edge of each disk further from the cent(-i' of the hub than Llie rear edge substantially as and for the purpose set; forth,

2. The hub. A, having incline(l equidistant 5 faces 41:, and studs projecting from said-faces at right angles to the plane 3 thereof, and' parallel to radial lines crossing said faces at 41gb angles, and cutter-disks carried by the I said studs, substantially as specified. I

"In testimony whereof I hz we signed my name :0 to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES w. MALOY.

"Witnesses:

GEORGE R. EAGER, CHAS. M. TILLINGHAST.

It is hereby certified that Letters PatentNo. 334,594, granted January 19, 1886, upon the application of J ames-W. Malay, of Boston, Massachusetts,'for an improvement in Cutter-Heads for Stone-Cutting -Machines, was erroneously issued to The American Marble Cutting Company; that said Letters Patent should have been issued to The American Marble-Cutting Company of- Bfiane, its fj r-iacipal place of business being in Boston, Massachusetts that this correction has been made'in the records of the n casein the Patent Office, and that the said :Letters Patent. should he read to conform thereto Signed, ceuntersigned, and sealed this 3d day of August, A. D. 1886.

E -1 H. L. MULDBOW, Acting Secretm'y of the Interior. 'Oonntersigned: R. B YANOE,

Acting dommissioner of Patenta 

